Ekow Eshun

A writer and broadcaster of national repute, Ekow Eshun is Chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group for Trafalgar Square and sits on the board of Arts Council England. From 2005-10 he was Artistic Director and, more latterly, Executive Director of the ICA, overseeing a rise in audience numbers of 38 percent during that period.

A leading voice on the arts, he is a regular contributor to BBC 2's The Review Show and Radio 4's Saturday Review among other programmes. He is a broadcaster of award-winning documentaries for BBC 2, Channel 4 and BBC 4 and a contributor to publications including the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. His first book, Black Gold of the Sun, was nominated for the Orwell Prize for political writing in 2006.